Summary
Francesco Trotta is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building everything from FPGA-based embedded systems to cloud-native AI products. As co-founder and CTO of a startup and later head of R&D and senior engineering manager roles, he has repeatedly taken research projects into production-grade, commercially successful solutions across Industry 4.0, bioinformatics, and enterprise SaaS. He blends deep technical fluency (VHDL/FPGA, computer vision, NLP, ML architectures) with product and business acumen—having secured public R&D funding and defined economically sustainable technical roadmaps. Known for scaling and mentoring high-performing teams, he creates engineering organizations that become internal references for excellence and reliability. Based in Milan, he now leads AI product development focused on governance and risk management, applying a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and applied AI to pragmatic, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science and Information Engineering, PhD Computer Science and Information Engineering at Università degli Studi di Perugia
English, Italian, German